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Friday, January 11, 2013

There has been a story all around the blog sphere on radical forgiveness, as the family of Ann forgave Connor, the killer of their daughter, and used restorative justice to shorten the time he will serve in prison.

Bad Catholic blogs about naked men and how puritanism and hedonism together makes it difficult to be comfortable in front of naked bodies and how it goes agains the good understanding of sexuality and of beauty of the created world.

--- LGBT Ministry in London is going to change ---

Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, have sent a letter and put a stop to the Soho "gay" masses in London, described The Guardian. Even if the news have been received with joy by the anti-gay lobby in UK.

Terence Weldon, in Queering the Church explains how this could be a good opportunity to rethink and develop the LGBT ministry for catholics. The Pastoral care will be expanded and will be organised by the same pastoral team, which released an official statement.

Paul Collins from What's life for has written a quite interesting peace about the finances of the Vatican. If, like me, you have lately encountered too many people uneducated in this respect, this may be a good article to point to. Also you can have a look at this and this.

--- cannon 915 and 916 ---

Those cannons regulate the reception and administration of the consecrated host. It is important not to conflate the too actions as so often happens in the debate of denying communion to gay and lesbian people and pro-abortion or politicians.

Dr Edward Peters have a web page on cannon law and also writes blogs. His expert take on the issue can be inferred from this post, or read an extended version here(pdf).